The Harmful Impacts of Biomass Energy Generation
Burning biomass for energy emits large amounts of air pollution, and endangers human health. http://massenvironmentalenergy.org/docs/biomass%20factsheet%20from%20MEEA.pdf
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UK Public Health in Dire Straits – Dr Dick Van Steenis
Wide-ranging effects of UK waste policies due to abject failure to properly monitor and seriously regulate PM2.5 (and PM1) particulates have included increased needless deaths, illnesses, and effects on various body systems. Increased PM1s &...
Submit your Objections to the Environment Agency
Planning permission for the BREP incinerator has been unanimously refused by Trafford’s councillors. However, the proposal is not yet dead as the Environment Agency are about to consider whether to grant an operating permit, if...
Dust-Up Over Biomass Plant
A pressure group is urging local MPs to step in to halt plans for a biomass plant in Sheffield on the grounds that it would be a “health hazardâ€. Read more: http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/business/local-business/dust-up-over-biomass-plant-1-4350409#